They added: "Improvements in mortgage
equity withdrawal, planning permission and credit growth suggest that demand for projects remains healthy."
"Most lenders offer loans for home purchase but increasingly different products are emerging such as loans for self-construction and for
equity withdrawal, which continue to be expensive and beyond the reach of the average Tanzanian," the report said.
M2 EQUITYBITES-December 30, 2013-UK housing
equity withdrawal still negative
The Bank added: "The dramatic collapse in the Irish property market means all of these factors have been reversed, moving the household sector from one of net
equity withdrawal to net equity injection."
She added: "Looking ahead, the combination of tight credit constraints, falling house prices and weak consumer confidence is likely to keep
equity withdrawal falling for some time yet."
Separate BoE data showed that, overall, homeowners continued to inject money into their properties, which they have done since the start of the financial crisis, reversing the trend of home
equity withdrawal to fund other spending that had dominated the previous decade.
It said: "The fall in housing
equity withdrawal since the financial crisis is likely to reflect a fall in the number of housing transactions, with little sign that households in aggregate are making an active effort to pay down debt more quickly than in the past."
THE following events are scheduled to take place this week: Today Housing
equity withdrawal figures Tuesday Trading updates: Interserve, N Brown, Persimmon Chancellor George Osborne gives evidence to the Commons Treasury Committee Wednesday Trading updates: Balfour Beatty, Booker Thursday Finals: Begbies Traynor Trading updates: Dunelm, WH Smith Bank of England decision on interest rates Friday Trading update: SIG
In this paper we provide an overview of one aspect of the relationship between housing wealth and aggregate demand: home
equity withdrawal. We summarise the level of borrowing that occurred, the terms and conditions of such borrowing and the reasons for home
equity withdrawal.
This brought the total of cash invested in private homes by their owners since this time last year to pounds 15.7 billion, according to numbers for "housing
equity withdrawal" published by the Bank yesterday.
It is only the third time that housing
equity withdrawal has been negative since 1998, with the rate at which people are repaying their mortgage accelerating from the third quarter, when net repayments of pounds 5.9billion were made..
Falling home prices will reduce household net worth by $2 trillion to $4 trillion, eliminating home
equity withdrawal as a source of future consumer spending.
